Hello, everybody, welcome back to my channel, Jennifer Marie VO, where I teach you different
ways that you can make money online working from home. In my last video, I talked about how I have
made over $11,000 selling printables in my Etsy shop. These are printables or digital downloads,
and you only have to make them once. And once you list them onto your Etsy shop,
you can sell as many of them as you want. So for most of my digital downloads, I sell them for $5
each. And nearly every day, I am making money selling these worksheets without having to do
anything. One day last week I made over $25 in one day from worksheets that I created back in 2016.
The response to my last video has been really positive. So I set up a poll on my channel
asking you what kinds of videos you want me to make related to creating printables on Etsy,
and the majority of voters wanted me to teach you how exactly you can create a
digital printable that you can go ahead and sell on Etsy. And if you remember in my last video,
I talked about all sorts of different niches that are really popular on Etsy, including calendars,
agendas and digital planners. And I even showed you an example of a shop that is selling really
beautiful but very simple calendars for 2021. And this particular shop has over 80,000 sales.
So in today's video, I'm going to show you exactly how to create your own digital printable
that you can go ahead and sell on Etsy. In today's tutorial, we're going to create the
printable using Microsoft Word. Microsoft Word is a program that most people have,
you don't need to have the latest version to create this printable. And let's say for example,
you don't have a copy of Microsoft Word will go and ask a friend or your family member or someone
if you can borrow their computer for an hour while you create some of these printables. Or
maybe you can go to a library or an internet cafe and use Microsoft Word on that computer to create
these principles. You don't have to use Microsoft Word you can use any other sort of graphic design
software. But in this particular tutorial, I'm going to show you how to create a printable
using Microsoft Word. In future tutorials. I'll show you how to create principles using Canva
and other types of graphic design software. And not only am I going to walk you through
step by step how to create a printable and how to save it as a PDF. I'm also going to show you two
different websites where you can get royalty free images that you are allowed to download
using your printables and resell them. I'm also going to show you a really cool website
to download beautiful royalty free funds so that you can use special fonts in your printables that
are not typically available in Microsoft Word. And that way your printables will really stand out.
And if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to my channel where I show you all
sorts of different ways that you can make money online. So let's get started. Okay, everybody,
let's get in how to create your own digital printables that you can sell on shops like Etsy.
I also want to make a point that you don't only have to sell these kinds of services on Etsy,
there are all sorts of other different platforms where you can sell printables.
And you could also advertise this as a gig if you're working on Upwork or on Fiverr. Some people
maybe already have a really nice Etsy shop and they don't want to spend time creating printables
you could say to them, Listen, I'll create five different printables for you for this much money.
And then that person can put those printables on their already successful shop and probably
make a lot of money off of those printables. So you can sell your services as a printable creator
on freelancing websites, or try your own luck by setting up your own shop on Etsy.
So in today's tutorial, I'm going to show you how to make a beautiful calendar that you can sell
on Etsy. And this is going to be very similar to the shop that I showed you in my first tutorial,
you can click on the link in the description below to see what shop I'm talking about,
where she creates beautiful printables. And it's a best seller for calendar for 2021. And I'm going
to show you how you can easily do that within Microsoft Word. So open up Word and not the top,
you're going to go File, New. And here you can search for online templates. So you can use any
of these templates to create printables. If you want to make an agenda or anything else,
I'm going to type in calendar, click on the Search icon. And you've got all these different templates
that you can go ahead and use. And I'm going to click on this one right here. Now the great
thing about this is that it will automatically update everything. So it will be accurate to the
year so you don't have to go in and change all the numbers and days yourself. It will
be accurate according to the year you're designing for. I'm going to click Create.
Now you'll select the month and year to create a calendar. So obviously I'm going to click March
2021. Click OK. And then it says to show different dates, go to the Calendar tab and choose Select
New dates. But I'm just going to show you this example for March 2021. We're going to click Ok.
Alright So right now we have this calendar. Now obviously, by itself, it's kind of ugly,
we want to make this more beautiful. over the side here, you can adjust the color to whatever
color scheme that you think looks beautiful. I'm going to choose this one. For example. You could
also go here go to Customize colors and change exactly the colors for the whole calendar. I'm
just going to leave it as it is right now. Now at the top here, we can highlight this, go over
to home. And we can change the font to any font that we want here. But let's say I don't really
like any of these fonts, I don't think they're very beautiful, I want something really special.
What we're going to do is I'm going to show you a royalty free website where you can download any
of the fonts and use them in your printable PDFs. The website is called fontspace.com.
You can use these fonts for commercial projects. That's right, zero license fees.
Enjoy the world's largest collection of commercial use fonts here at font space. So you can scroll
down. There's all sorts of really cool ones, you know, Harry Potter, all sorts of stuff.
You can go into related font styles, there's calligraphy, there's cursive, when I
click cursive, and you can see all these beautiful different funds that you can use.
So when you find a font that you like, just click on this download icon right here.
So this one is lovely coffee font, want to click on the zip file.
And then to download the file, you just have to double click on the font the dot TTF file,
then it will pop up this and you can click Install. And it will automatically install
the font to where it has to be on your computer. So you can use it in Microsoft Word. Now from this
website I already downloaded one I liked called lovely home. So let's go back to our printable
here. And I'm going to highlight the font here. So this is the lovely coffee font we just downloaded.
And this one here is the lovely home font. But what I want to do, instead of replacing this
font right here, because they have it set, so it's automatically capital letters, and I can't
change it and I don't want it to be in capital letters, going to go ahead and erase this font.
And then I'm going to, I want to move this down a bit. So I'm going to just drag this a little
bit down. And don't worry about this extra bar here. Just keep dragging this down a little bit
can actually go view and then zoom it to 75% so we can see a bit better. And I'm actually going
to erase this line here because I want to put a quote here later. So I've just erased that.
And then bring this down just a little bit. Okay, just by clicking and dragging. Now what I want to
do is insert a text box, and then click just on simple text box, we will erase the border later.
I like to do this because you have a bit more control over your font, put March 2021.
I'm going to highlight it go back to home and you can increase the font. And then I'm going to go to
lovely home my new font that I downloaded because I think this is really a beautiful font. Okay,
now I want to get rid of this black border. So I'm going to click on the box once again,
right click go format shape, go to line and choose no line. We can also go to fill and choose no
fill, because right now it does have a white fill. And if we want to put a graphic background later,
it's better if it's no fill. And I'm going to move this to the side a little bit because I want to
add in a pretty flower design over here. Okay, so the next thing we're going to do is find a pretty
graphic that we're going to use, we're going to use pixabay. Pixabay has stunning free images and
royalty free stock and you can use these in your designs and sell these designs without any issues.
I'm going to type in a flower. Now these ones at the top are all sponsored images with eyestalk. So
just scroll down and these are the ones that are free. There are so many different ones.
I like this one right here. Let's click on this the hand painted watercolor. And this
one is free for commercial use as you can see, so you just click free download and you
can download whatever size you want. We don't need it to be too big. Then click download.
Just make sure you click that you're not a robot click download. Okay, so now we're ready to import
this into Microsoft word to use in our calendar. What we're going to do is go to insert pictures.
Click this device and locate the file that we just downloaded. Okay, and now it'll pop up like
this. And this might freak you out a bit because your calendar has now disappeared down here. But
don't worry, we're going to right click on this image, go to wrap text and choose behind text.
And now what we're going to do is I want this, I'm going to drag on these corners here to resize it.
And then you'll see this rotate arrow, and we're going to rotate it.
So it's like this. And then bring it up a little bit. And you can actually go over
here under artistic effects. And you can even play around with different effects to make it you know,
a little bit more stylish or a little bit more to your liking there. And then I'm going to move this
a little bit as well. Okay, so this is looking pretty good. I move this down a little bit. Okay,
now let's say I don't want this pink color, I want it to match this here, I want it to be red. to
quickly change the color, instead of going back in and customizing it. Just going to highlight
all the pink, click here. And then I'm going to go more colors. But I'm just going to choose,
you know a nice red that seems to match. This is a nice red here,
click OK. And now I'll do that for all of these different little ones right here, highlight that,
again, go to recent colors, so it all matches and then here as well. Okay, and now it all matches.
Here, you can put in any sort of special date. So for example, March 8 was International Women's
days, you could put International Women's Day, you know, or you could just leave the calendar
blank. So the person who buys a calendar can fill in it as they wish as well. Okay, so the last
thing I want to do to customize this calendar and make it special is to add a quote at the bottom.
So we're again, we're going to go insert, text box, simple text box that, drag it down to the
bottom. And we want this line to pop up again. So we're going to right click on the text box, wrap
text, we're going to go in front of text or behind text. And that way, it's all on the same page.
stretch this out a bit, go down here, and then you can copy whatever quote you want.
I'm going to use a special Women's Day sort of quote, because of March. So this quote
here where there is a woman there is magic. So let's say I want to highlight that again and
make it match the font that we use before. And we're going to click here to increase.
You can change the color as well if you want, center it. And then we want to erase the box
again. So we'll go shape options. And we'll click no line. So now it's erase the line. Okay,
so just like that we have a really beautiful calendar that you can go ahead and save as a PDF.
and sell this on Etsy. And if you wanted to change this to another month and add a different design
for for another month, click on calendar, click Select New dates, and then you can go ahead
April 2021, for example. And you can see that's just changed everything to April. And then all
you would have to do is go up here and put April 2021. And it's just that simple. Just make sure
you save the previous file as a PDF. So to do that, we'll go File, Save As and then choose
wherever you want to save it. And under Save as type PDF, we can put April 2021 calendar, save.
And just like that you have a really beautiful calendar that you can go ahead and sell on Etsy,
you could make a different design with a different quote for every single month.
Maybe having something targeted towards children or teachers or weddings, or spring or make a theme
or something so you can even be more specific and try to attract a really specific audience.
I hope this tutorial helped you out and inspired you a little to see how easy
it is to create printables that you can sell on Etsy. If you have any other questions for
me about selling on Etsy about what sorts of principles you can design for if you want me
to create a tutorial showing you how to create any other sort of principle just let me know in
the comment section of this video. Once again, if you haven't already, make sure to subscribe to my
channel. Click like on this video if this helped you out and I will see you all in my next video.